It's time for your daily round of Wordle hints, expertly crafted to help you keep your streak going even on the toughest of days. 

You might think that you don't need any clues for Wordle today, but remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.   

Below, you'll find a selection of Wordle hints to guide you in the right direction. You don't have to use them all, but there are five in total should you need them, covering vowels, starting letter, ending letter and more. And if you don't have time to play at all, you can see the answer, too. 

Want more word-based fun? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, which remains the best of all the main Wordle alternatives.

SPOILER WARNING: Wordle hints and today's answer are below, so don't read on if you don't want to see them.

Wordle hints (game #839) - clue #1 - Vowels

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). 

Wordle hints (game #839) - clue #2 - first letter

C is a very common starting letter in Wordle - in fact, it's the second most common of all, behind only S.

Wordle hints (game #839) - clue #3 - repeated letters

Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it's still more likely that a Wordle doesn't have one.

Wordle hints (game #839) - clue #4 - ending letter

E is the most common letter to end a Wordle answer by far. That's one of the reasons why many of the best start words, including SLATE, CRANE, CRATE and STARE, all end with one.

Wordle hints (game #839) - clue #5 - last chance

Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #839.

• Today's Wordle answer is a harmonious sound.

If you just want to know today's Wordle answer now, simply scroll down – but I'd always recommend trying to solve it on your own first. We've got lots of Wordle tips and tricks to help you, including a guide to the best Wordle start words.

If you don't want to know today's answer then DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER BECAUSE IT IS PRINTED BELOW. So don't say you weren't warned!

Today's Wordle answer (game #839)

Today's Wordle answer (game #839) is… CHIME.

We're back on easy street for today's game, following the much, much tougher BUNCH yesterday. WordleBot, the NYT's slightly patronising AI helper tool, says this one has an average score of just 3.5, and it doesn't take a genius to see why. 

Put simply, this is a bog-standard Wordle. It's the classic two-consonants-vowel-consonant-vowel format. Or, more specifically, the C-consonant-vowel-consonant-E format. In fact, I just performed a little statistical analysis and it turns out that there are 33 Wordles that start with a C and end in an E, the sixth most common starting/ending combination in the game. The most common? That would be S---E, at a mighty 74 examples.

Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked by numbers. The important thing is that this should have been a pretty straightforward Wordle to solve. It certainly will have been if you began with TRICE, which was the most successful of the best Wordle starting words today, leaving just four possible solutions. CRATE and CARTE, which both left 12, plus CRANE (13), CARET (17) and TRACE (18) were all very helpful too. The fact that all of those reduced the solutions list to the low double digits (or less) will definitely have lowered the average score today.

If you didn't start with one of them, you'll have needed a good second word instead. In my case, STARE left a hefty 106 options, but LINGO, my second guess, reduced that to just five. I will admit here that I stole the idea for playing LINGO from WordleBot, which used it on previous games where I'd had just a single green E on the first go; I'd usually have played CLING. Then again, playing CLING today would have left only three answers, so maybe I should have stuck with my past approach.

Anyway, five possibles wasn't too bad: CHIDE, CHIME, CHIVE, JUICE and IMBUE. I didn't spot the fifth of those, but had the other four. Going for one of the CH words made sense, and CHIME seemed like a more likely answer than the others, so I went with that. And today, lady luck smiled upon me. CHIME was indeed the answer, giving me a 3/6 I possibly didn't deserve.   

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. 

Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #838)

In a different time zone where it's still Thursday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #838, too.

• Wordle yesterday had a vowel in one place.

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). 

• The first letter in yesterday's Wordle answer was B.

B is a very, very common starting letter in Wordle. In fact, it's the third most common overall, behind only S and C. 

• There were no repeated letters in yesterday's Wordle.

Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it's still more likely that a Wordle doesn't have one.

• The last letter in yesterday's Wordle was H.

H is a regular visitor to the final spot in a Wordle word. It occurs 137 times at the end of a Wordle answer, making it the sixth most common letter there.

Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #838.

• Yesterday's Wordle answer is a number of things.

Today's Wordle answer (game #838)

Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #838) was… BUNCH.

Uh-oh! Yes, it's time for one of those Wordles. You know, the kind that have multiple possible answers that differ only by one letter, typically the first one. CATCH/BATCH/MATCH/PATCH/WATCH/HATCH is one of the most famous such sequences; WATCH, game #265 in March 2022, was one of the first Wordles to go viral for how hard it was. 

We had another one not so long ago in the form of HOUND, which had an average score of 4.6 based on so many people also guessing the likes of FOUND, MOUND, WOUND, ROUND, SOUND, POUND and BOUND.

BUNCH doesn't have quite so many alternatives, but you still could have picked from PUNCH, LUNCH, HUNCH and MUNCH, as well as the answer itself.

The key to these games is not to guess blindly, working your way through the alphabet until you stumble upon the correct starting letter. Or, if you play on hard mode, you need to not get yourself into a trap where you have -UNCH and have to guess blindly.

How your game played out will therefore have depended in great part on whether you tried to narrow things down first. But either way, it will have been hard; WordleBot says it has an average score of 4.5, which makes it second only to DADDY among the past month's puzzles. 

It's also a game where it really paid to get lucky with your choice of the best Wordle starting words. Most of them weren't particularly helpful and left dozens of choices for your second guess. For instance STARE, my pick, left 319 possible answers and SLATE, WordleBot's favorite, left 309. Very few were below 50. But CRANE cut the solutions to a mere 18, CRONE to 19 and LANCE to just 10.

A good second guess should have helped; mine certainly did. I went with CLOUD, which is always my go-to after I draw a blank on the opener. Today it gave me a yellow C and yellow U, which didn't seem too promising, but it turns out it had actually cut the options by 310, leaving me with just nine to pick from.

It didn't take me long to figure out that -UNCH words (BUNCH, PUNCH, MUNCH, HUNCH) made up four of those nine, with CKY, CY or CK making up four more (QUICK, JUICY, MUCKY, YUCKY). The ninth? Um, PUBIC. Let's move on…

I decided to establish which pattern it was by guessing PUNCH, which was a bit sloppy of me really – I'd have been better going for WordleBot's suggestion of IMPLY, which couldn't have been right but which would have left only two answers. PUNCH did confirm the pattern of the word, but left three.

Still, I had three guesses left and three words to pick from. I couldn't lose. I could have guaranteed a 5/6 by playing PLUMB, but instead decided to try for a 4/6. BUNCH was my next choice and I got lucky – that was indeed the answer, meaning I still beat the average for the day.

Wordle answers: The past 50

I've been playing Wordle every day for more than a year now and have tracked all of the previous answers so I can help you improve your game. Here are the last 50 solutions starting with yesterday's answer, or check out my past Wordle answers page for the full list.

• Wordle #838, Thursday 5 October: BUNCH
• Wordle #837, Wednesday 4 October: SPURT
• Wordle #836, Tuesday 3 October: WHILE
• Wordle #835, Monday 2 October: MERRY
• Wordle #834, Sunday 1 October: BERET
• Wordle #833, Saturday 30 September: DADDY
• Wordle #832, Friday 29 September: AZURE
• Wordle #831, Thursday 28 September: COACH
• Wordle #830, Wednesday 27 September: SMILE
• Wordle #829, Tuesday 26 September: LOYAL
• Wordle #828, Monday 25 September: ROCKY
• Wordle #827, Sunday 24 September: RIGHT
• Wordle #826, Saturday 23 September: CAROL
• Wordle #825, Friday 22 September: BRUSH
• Wordle #824, Thursday 21 September: STONE
• Wordle #823, Wednesday 20 September: SNARE
• Wordle #822, Tuesday 19 September: CLOSE
• Wordle #821, Monday 18 September: FRANK
• Wordle #820, Sunday 17 September: MUSIC
• Wordle #819, Saturday 16 September: ANGEL
• Wordle #818, Friday 15 September: EXERT
• Wordle #817, Thursday 14 September: RAYON
• Wordle #816, Wednesday 13 September: CLEAR
• Wordle #815, Tuesday 12 September: WHISK
• Wordle #814, Monday 11 September: OLDER
• Wordle #813, Sunday 10 September: QUOTE
• Wordle #812, Saturday 9 September: LUCKY
• Wordle #811, Friday 8 September: ROUSE
• Wordle #810, Thursday 7 September: DWELL
• Wordle #809, Wednesday 6 September: GNASH
• Wordle #808, Tuesday 5 September: BIRCH
• Wordle #807, Monday 4 September: GIDDY
• Wordle #806, Sunday 3 September: AWAIT
• Wordle #805, Saturday 2 September: ONION
• Wordle #804, Friday 1 September: SPACE
• Wordle #803, Thursday 31 August: BRIDE
• Wordle #802, Wednesday 30 August: AUDIO
• Wordle #801, Tuesday 29 August: CAPER
• Wordle #800, Monday 28 August: WRITE
• Wordle #799, Sunday 27 August: PEACE
• Wordle #798, Saturday 26 August: CHOIR
• Wordle #797, Friday 25 August: OCEAN
• Wordle #796, Thursday 24 August: WORDY
• Wordle #795, Wednesday 23 August: VERVE
• Wordle #794, Tuesday 22 August: SPICE
• Wordle #793, Monday 21 August: BEACH
• Wordle #792, Sunday 20 August: QUEST
• Wordle #791, Saturday 19 August: MAGMA
• Wordle #790, Friday 18 August: EXACT
• Wordle #789, Thursday 17 August: AMISS
• Wordle #788, Wednesday 16 August: SCRUB

What is Wordle?

If you're on this page then you almost certainly know what Wordle is already, and indeed have probably been playing it for a while. And even if you've not been playing it, you must surely have heard of it by now, because it's the viral word game phenomenon that took the world by storm last year and is still going strong in 2023.

We've got a full guide to the game in our What is Wordle page, but if you just want a refresher then here are the basics.

Memorizing all of the past Wordle answers is nearly impossible - after all, there have now been more than 700 of them. But knowing what's gone before is important, because Wordle answers don't repeat - so you could easily be wasting guesses.

What you need then, is a list of past Wordle answers - and that's what I've made for you here. It's organized by month and you can simply search the page to see whether the word you're thinking of has already been used.

So pick one of the best Wordle starting words, take a look at the Wordle hints for today and keep this list close when you're playing - your streak will thank you.

Past Wordle answers: The full list

Below you'll find a list of every Wordle so far - all 838 of them (and counting!)

I've organised the answers by month, making it easy to browse them. And if you're trying to find out whether a specific word has already been an answer, there are easy ways to do that:

• Windows: click CTRL+F
• macOS: click CMD+F
• iOS: click Share (the box with the arrow), then 'Find on page'
• Android: click the three dots in the top-right then 'Find in page'

Right, on with the list - starting with yesterday's answer.

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It feels as though Google is playing catch up at the moment when it comes to the ChatGPT-powered AI that Microsoft has introduced to Bing – but Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that his company's own Bard bot is going to quickly get more capable.

In an interview with the NYT's Hard Fork podcast (via The Verge), Pichai said that Bard was currently like a "souped-up Civic" taking on "more powerful cars" – but also that Google has "more capable models" that are going to get deployed in the coming days.

"We knew when we were putting Bard out we wanted to be careful," Pichai said. "Since this was the first time we were putting out, we wanted to see what type of queries we would get. We obviously positioned it carefully."

According to the Google CEO, more capable PaLM (Pathways Language Model) versions of the Bard chatbot will be rolled out "over the course of next week". That will mean Bard gets noticeably better at reasoning, and coding, and in other areas.

Slow and steady

Pichai's overall tone was a mixture of caution in terms of experimenting with what Bard could do, and excitement about where it could eventually end up. These "very, very powerful technologies" can be personalized to companies and people, Pichai said.

The Google executive also addressed data privacy concerns and worries about the pace at which AI engines like Bard and ChatGPT are progressing. Some of the most prominent voices in tech have called for a six-month pause on artificial intelligence development.

Pichai welcomes these sorts of discussions and wants to see governments setting rules: "AI is too important an area not to regulate," he told the podcast. "It's also too important an area not to regulate well. So I'm glad these conversations are underway."

The interview also touched on a variety of other areas, including how AI might impact jobs ("we all may need to course-correct in certain areas") and the content put out on the web ("we'll be committed to getting it right with the publisher ecosystem").

Analysis: lots of big questions

This latest podcast interview highlights just how many big questions there are over AI right now: how it will affect data privacy, the sorts of jobs it might make redundant, the impact it will have on publishers if Google and Bing are one-stop shops, and so on.

To be fair to Pichai, he dealt with those questions very sensibly – but that's not necessarily a guarantee that some of the worries we have over AI are going to go away. We're facing a gigantic shift in the way we live our lives and get our information over the web.

Pichai admitted that the tech is "going to be incredibly beneficial" but also "has the potential to cause harm in a deep way". It's good to acknowledge that, but companies such as Google are driven by profit and money making over any sense of moral obligation.

At least there's a conversation happening. "This is going to need a lot of debate," Pichai said. "No one knows all the answers. No one company can get it right. Am I concerned? Yes. Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology? Incredibly."

• Google Bard can't really help you play Wordle yet

Microsoft’s own Defender antivirus program has erroneously labeled a number of safe links as malicious, sowing confusion among dozens of users. 

After one of the affected users posted about the problem on Reddit, others quickly chimed in, confirming they had seen the same issue. For some, Zoom links were classified as malicious, while for others, Google’s links, as well.

Soon after being tipped off, Microsoft took to Twitter to acknowledge the problem and to say that its engineers were working on a fix.

Trouble viewing alerts

"We're investigating an issue where legitimate URL links are being incorrectly marked as malicious by the Microsoft Defender service. Additionally, some of the alerts are not showing content as expected," Microsoft said. 

"We've confirmed that users are still able to access the legitimate URLs despite the false positive alerts. We're investigating why and what part of the service is incorrectly identifying legitimate URLs as malicious."

A later update on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center portal stated that admins can expect an “increased number” of high-severity email message alerts saying “A potentially malicious URL click was detected”, and that they can also expect trouble viewing the details by pressing the “View alerts” link in the messages. 

"We're reviewing service monitoring telemetry to isolate the root cause and develop a remediation plan," Microsoft said. "Impact is specific to any admin served through the affected infrastructure."

A few hours later, Microsoft issued yet another update, saying the false positive issue has been addressed. Apparently, the problem was in the SafeLinks feature, and its engineers fixed it by reverting recent updates.

“We determined that recent additions to the SafeLinks feature resulted in the false alerts and we subsequently reverted these additions to fix the issue,” Microsoft said in a tweet. “More detail can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under DZ534539.”

• Check out the best firewalls

Via: BleepingComputer

Researchers from SentinelLabs have uncovered a new toolkit cybercriminals are using to breach email and web hosting services. 

The malware toolkit, called “AlienFox”, is being described as “highly modular” and getting regular updates. Most of the tools in the kit are open source, and with the speed at which it’s being updated, the researchers concluded the devs are becoming “increasingly sophisticated”.

As per SentinelLabs’ report, hackers are shilling AlienFox on Telegram groups, claiming it can be used to compromise misconfigured hosts on cloud platforms and steal sensitive data.

Abusing scanning platforms 

"AlienFox tools facilitate attacks on minimal services that lack the resources needed for mining," the researchers said in their report. "By analyzing the tools and tool output, we found that actors use AlienFox to identify and collect service credentials from misconfigured or exposed services. For victims, compromise can lead to additional service costs, loss of customer trust, and remediation costs."

To generate a list of misconfigured hosts, the toolkit uses security scanning platforms, such as LeakIX, or SecurityTrails. Then, it uses multiple scripts to pull sensitive information such as API keys and secrets from configuration files, the researchers explained. Some of the versions analyzed for the report were able to establish AWS account persistence and escalate privileges, as well as collect send quotas and automate spam campaigns through victim accounts and services.

So far, attacks against cloud-based services were limited mostly to cryptominers. Threat actors would use compromised cloud servers to run XMRig or similar cryptocurrency miners, generating tokens without needing to pay for electricity, internet, or compute power. With AlienFox, SentinelLabs claims, opportunistic cloud attacks are no longer confined to cryptomining. 

“For victims, compromise can lead to additional service costs, loss in customer trust, and remediation costs,” the researchers concluded.

• Here are the best firewalls 

Via: The Register 

ChromeOS has been getting plenty of upgrades to its video editing since 2022, and now it's getting even more from Google Photos. 

According to a new Google support page post, Google Photos will be empowering the best Chromebooks everywhere with even more new features. Jumping off from Chromebook’s Gallery app integration in 2022, Google Photos has added more support for Gallery and Files by allowing you to “seamlessly” use photos and images saved on the Chromebook and edit them in Google Photos. 

Another major edit comes in the form of revamped movie creation tools on the Photos app, which lets you create a movie from scratch using a suggested theme. After you choose a theme from the Photos app, as well as the people or pets you want to be included in the movie, the video editor uses video clips and photos you have stored that match that theme and strings them together into a custom movie. If you want a more hands-on approach instead, Google Photos has a search feature that lets you find and arrange all that media yourself.

Google has a full how-to on creating movies, as well as editing photos and videos, through the app on ChromeOS. But it’s a simple process that involves the following:

• Install the Google Photos app 
• Open up the media you want to be edited and select Edit. 
• From there you choose whichever editing tool you want to use. 

If you want to create a movie:

• Select Creations on the Google Photos app
• Choose either the suggested movie option or New movie

Chromebooks are getting more recognition

ChromeOS, once the oft-ignored child of Google that's been the platform for the best cheap laptop option for school kids and nothing more, has been growing in both popularity among users and in support by its own creator. 

Last year, we saw the debut of the HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook, considered by our standards to be the best Chromebook and one that can stand toe to toe with plenty of the best Ultrabooks out there.

More features like the aforementioned updates to Google Photos and the addition of more Apple support via one of the best video editors, Apple’s LumaFusion app, have become commonplace in the last several years. We even have gaming Chromebooks like the Acer Chromebook 516 GE that are specifically designed to handle high-end gaming via the cloud.

And, unlike even the best Windows laptop, ChromeOS simply doesn’t see the kinds of viruses and malware plaguing other operating systems, meaning you don’t need to worry about constantly protecting and scanning your machine for threats (or cleaning it out if something nasty does worm its way in).

It’ll be interesting to see how much more support Chromebooks get in the future, but it’s an exciting time for Chromebook fans.

From afar, the ROG Flow Z13-ACRNM from Asus looks like a rugged tablet similar to the one magnesium-coated ToughPad models from Panasonic. However, come closer and the industrial design, the CNC-milled aluminum chassis, the reinforced corners and the bundled accessories just ooze “schmexi-ness”, to paraphrase our sister publication, Laptopmag.

Produced in partnership with revered artist Errolson Hugh, the RMT02 (as it is otherwise known), is pitched as a gaming tablet but its price (£2999 in the UK, $2500 in the US) and form factor make it a match in heaven for businesses, organizations and professionals eager to get a top of the range slate without an outrageous price tag.

The fact that it runs Windows 11 Pro by default, supports Microsoft Windows Hello, has a stylus and a full array of accessories (accessory bag, keyboard strap, main strap and detachable keyboard) makes it a very enticing proposition. Could it be used as a business tablet? We wouldn't say no. Mobile workstation? Definitely given its specs.

A great alternative to boring business tablets

And the RMT02 delivers value-for-money in spades but let’s start with the bad news though: it is not IP-rated so you won’t be able to use it in dusty or moist environments. It’s not been tested to MIL-STD-810G standards either although Asus says that it has robust protection with plenty of rubber around the chassis to mitigate any falls. There’s also no fingerprint reader which is a shame.

The rest though is spectacularly good, very good: there’s a 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900H processor (that’s 14 cores and 20 threads), an Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 GPU with 8GB GDDR6 (remember, this is a gaming laptop wannabe), 32GB LPDDR5, 1TB SSD and Wi-Fi 6E. Despite being a mere tablet, it has a TB4 port with two USB ports, an audio jack and even a card reader.

The screen certainly remains the highlight: a sumptuous QHD+ 13.4-inch display that is not only DCI-P3/Pantone validated (making it an ideal display for Photoshop) but also one with a high brightness (500 nits), perfect for the busy outdoors. Asus chose a 56WHr battery, powered by a 130W AC GaN adapter, to keep the tablet running. At 1.32Kg alone (add 390g for the backlit chiclet keyboard), the ROG Flow Z13-ACRNM is light enough to be carried around.

There’s plenty else to talk about: Dolby Atmos, two speakers, a trio of microphones, Dolby Vision HDR support and the ability to support external GPUs. Just be mindful that battery life will not be great because of the high refresh rate and the small battery size.

Keeping your business safe from cyberthreats is set to get a lot easier, thanks to a new update from Microsoft Teams.

The video conferencing service is set to benefit from a number of security boosts as Microsoft brings several Defender for Office 365 tools and services to the platform.

This includes full end-to-end protection for Microsoft Teams, but also a hopeful rise in awareness and preparation for users in businesses across the world

Microsoft Teams security

"Today, 270 million users use Teams to communicate and be productive, making it indispensable to effective collaboration," the company wrote in a blog post announcing the news.

"However, the growing number of users has also made a new target for adversaries trying to gain access to an organizations’ sensitive data and operations. Attacks like phishing and ransomware that for decades have primarily used email as an entry point, are now also targeting users on collaboration tools with growing frequency."

The launch follows recent Microsoft research which found nearly three-quarters (71%) of companies admitted to sharing sensitive and business-critical data via collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams. 

Among the new features is the ability for users to report suspicious messages directly in Teams, similar to what is already available now to report suspicious emails in Microsoft Outlook.

Security teams will be alerted whenever users report suspicious messages, with the ability to block or quarantine potential risks, and can view them in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

Microsoft is also adding to the existing advanced hunting features in Microsoft 365 Defender to support security for Teams, and is giving IT admins the chance to run attack simulations to raise awareness and protection against threats such as phishing.

Collaboration Security for Microsoft Teams is available for customers of Microsoft E5, Microsoft E5 Security, or Microsoft Defender for Office 365, with a public preview available now, ahead of a wider rollout scheduled for June 2023.

• Check out our rundown of the best online collaboration tools available

Microsoft’s efforts to help its customers work “smarter and faster” has been spotted in the wild as the company scales up the testing of its Copilot platform to select users.

Following heavy investment in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and the subsequent rollout of Bing’s ChatGPT integration and more niche artificial intelligence tools to other services, Microsoft believes it is on the cusp of getting generative AI into the hands of millions more daily users as it looks to integrate it into its Microsoft 365 office software.

Some users in the Insiders beta channel have now gotten their hands on the early version of Copilot for Word in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Copilot for Word

Microsoft hopes that with its GPT-4-based generative assistant, users will be able to produce and edit work more quickly with a tool capable of handling context like attachments.

At its basic level, Copilot can help handle things like formatting and rewriting text. While it’s also capable of generating new text, it’s at its most impressive when handling other documents, where it can do things like create summaries and action plans.

Key to its success will be Copilot’s ability to seamlessly work across the various Microsoft 365 apps on offer to crossreference data across workloads that would otherwise typically be tedious and time-consuming for workers.

Microsoft has kept the details about Copilot undercover, however it’s likely that testing will begin to roll out across other services and to more users soon with a full launch expected reasonably soon.

That’s to help the company stay ahead of the curve, which it has done in previous months, beating Google to the mark in terms of AI. In the meantime, reports that Google is testing generative AI across Docs and Gmail only add to the pressure to get it right, and get it done quickly.

• Here’s our pick of the best online collaboration tools

Via Windows Latest